A population-genetic perspective on the similarities and differences among worldwide human populations

Human Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 659-684

  Rosenberg, Noah A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Apportionment; Clustering; Heterozygosity; Microsatellites; Partition of variation; Population structure; Private alleles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859527053     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.083.0601     Document Type: Article

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